Courses

For a list of current course descriptions for Spring 2024 click here.
For a list of current course descriptions for Summer 2024 click here.
For a list of current course descriptions for Fall 2024 click here.

Summer 2025

This course introduces major world religions and the scholarly methods of the academic study of religion. Religions covered may include Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and/or New Religious Movements. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.


1110.001

Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS

  • Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials are prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
  • Type: Lecture

Provides an academic overview of major religious traditions of Asia (mainly India, China, and Japan), which may include Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Daoism, Shinto, and/or Shamanism as well as popular, tribal, or new religions. Students will be assigned both primary and secondary texts. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.


2110.002

Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS

  • Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
  • Type: Lecture

2110.003

Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Location: Online MAX UNM CANVAS

Studies in major religious figures or movements. Topic varies.


347.001 T:Curanderismo without Borders

Instructor: Del Angel Guevara, Mario
Dates: Jun. 2, 2025 - Jun. 13, 2025
Time/s: MTWRF 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Anthropology 163

  • Type: Topics

Fall 2025

This course introduces major world religions and the scholarly methods of the academic study of religion. Religions covered may include Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and/or New Religious Movements. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.


1110.001

Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Time/s: MWF 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Location:

  • Type: Lecture

1110.002

Instructor: Wolne, Daniel
Time/s: TR 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Location: Kiva 104

  • Type: Lecture

1110.004

Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS

  • Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
  • Type: Lecture

1110.008

Instructor: Barnes, William
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS

  • Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
  • Type: Lecture

An introductory study of the structure and content of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures. This class provides the context and reading skills for study and investigation of the Bible and its influence upon western culture and religion.


1120.001

Instructor: ,

Religion, Health, and Medicine introduces students to how people’s religious beliefs and practices influence their perspectives on health and their approaches to medical care and treatment.


1550.001

Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS

  • Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
  • Type: Lecture

1550.002

Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS

  • Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
  • Type: Lecture

Provides an academic overview of major religious traditions of Asia (mainly India, China, and Japan), which may include Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Daoism, Shinto, and/or Shamanism as well as popular, tribal, or new religions. Students will be assigned both primary and secondary texts. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.


2110.001

Instructor: Ulrich, Katherine
Time/s: TR 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Location: Univ Advise & Enrich Center B90

  • Type: Lecture

2110.002

Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Location: Online MAX UNM CANVAS

2110.003

Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS

  • Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
  • Type: Lecture

This is a survey course that will cover major religious traditions of the West, including the three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and other religious systems. The course will focus on how each tradition has developed historically and how it exists in the world today.


2120.003

Instructor: ,
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS

  • Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
  • Type: Lecture

An examination of the social, political, and cultural aspects of fundamentalism in the contemporary Muslim world.


313.001

Instructor: Banihashemi, Mozafar
Time/s: TR 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Location:

  • Type: Lecture

(Also offered as CLST 321) This course examines the development of the genre of apocalypse by reading several early Jewish apocalypses before examining the lasting influence of apocalypticism in one particular Jewish sect, Christianity.


321.001

Instructor: Gorton, Luke
Time/s: TR 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Location: Woodward Lecture Hall 147

  • Type: Lecture

This course examines Hindu scriptures and practices to understand how deities and their relationships with men and women, high and low castes, and the natural and social worlds have changed over time.


335.001

Instructor: Ulrich, Katherine
Time/s: TR 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Location:

  • Type: Lecture

Studies in major religious figures or movements. Topic varies.


347.001 T: Bible as Literature

Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS

  • Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
  • Type: Topics

347.002 T: Sex and Religion

Instructor: ,
Online Class

347.003 T: Mysticism: East & West

Instructor: Wolne, Daniel
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS

  • Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
  • Type: Topics

347.004 T: AI & Human Life

Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Time/s: TR 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Location:

  • Type: Topics

347.005 T: Religion & Bioethics

Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS

  • Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
  • Type: Topics

347.006 T: Curanderismo

Instructor: Del Angel Guevara, Mario
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS

  • Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials are prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
  • Type: Topics

An introduction exploring relationships between the literary and religious traditions. {Fall}


350.0

Instructor: ,
Online Class

350.001

Instructor: ,
Online Class

This course introduces students to the history of Roman Catholicism in the United States, emphasizing the interaction of Catholicism with politics and culture, and the religious lives of ordinary Catholics.


351.001

Instructor: Holscher, Kathleen
Time/s: TR 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Location:

  • Type: Lecture

(Also offered as HIST 441) This class will cover the rise and development of the nation's religious groups, from first contact to the present day. The focus will be on the social impact of the groups and how they influenced the development of American life.


441.002

Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS

  • Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
  • Type: Seminar

Faculty-supervised individual study in an area of special interest not readily available through conventional course offerings. Restriction: permission of program chairperson.


497.001

Instructor: Wolne, Daniel

  • Type: Seminar

497.002

Instructor: Holscher, Kathleen

  • Type: Seminar

497.003

Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Location:

  • Type: Seminar

497.004

Instructor: Banihashemi, Mozafar
Location:

  • Type: Seminar

497.005

Instructor: Yates, Franklin
Location:

  • Type: Seminar

497.006

Instructor: Gorton, Luke
Location:

  • Type: Seminar

497.008

Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Location:

  • Type: Seminar

497.009

Instructor: ,
Location:

  • Type: Seminar

497.010

Instructor: ,
Location:

  • Type: Seminar

497.011

Instructor: Lipka, Hilary
Location:

  • Type: Seminar